Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will join with Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to speed up the development of Wideband cdmaOne Third Generation standardization.
The company’s Code Division Multiple Access based products and systems was a factor in its joining the effort, it said. Samsung also has experience in IS-95 system development and deployment through its Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Korea.
The companies said they also will support development of other third-generation standards in other regions of the world. Their specifications will be submitted to the International Telecommunications Union for global standardization when completed.
